nvme_get_log_page(2)

💖 nvme_get_log_page — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the libnvme API manual, section 2, and it's all about nvme_get_log_page. no cap, it's a lil function that goes and grabs you some log page data off your NVMe device. it's giving "let me pull up the receipts" energy fr fr 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

nvme_get_log_page — Get log page data 🦋

like... literally. that's the whole job. it fetches log page data. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int nvme_get_log_page (int fd , __u32 xfer_len , struct
       nvme_get_log_args *args );

yes bestie, it returns an int, it takes an fd, an xfer_len, and a pointer to your args struct. that's the vibe. 💅

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• fd — the file descriptor of the nvme device. your lil doorway into the device, you gotta hand it over so it knows who it's talking to 🔥
• xfer_len — the max log transfer size per request, which it uses to split the total. so if your log is huge, this is the chunk-size situation — it slices the whole transfer up into requests this big. very "eat the elephant one bite at a time" of it 🍓
• args — a struct nvme_get_log_args argument structure. all the actual details of what you want live in here, this is just the pointer to it 🧚

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

so here's what you get back:

• the nvme command status if a response was received — peep enum nvme_status_field for what those statuses actually mean 👀
• or -1 with errno set, if it didn't get a response. that's the "we didn't get a reply bestie, check errno" path 😭

ngl if you see -1, don't panic — just go check errno, it's literally telling you what happened. the flag is right there 💀

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💖✨🦋🌸🎀

this lil writeup came from the libnvme API manual, version/page dated July 2026, and the page itself is nvme_get_log_page(2). mwah, go forth and read those logs 🫶👑